Local Records: Or, Historical Register of Remarkable Events which Have Occurred in Northumberland and Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, with Biographical Notices of Deceased Persons of Talent, Eccentricity, and Longevity, Volumen2

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T. Fordyce, 1876
 

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Página 71 - I render you ; Only this one : — lord Angelo is precise ; Stands at a guard with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
Página 62 - IN other men we faults can spy, And blame the mote that dims their eye ; Each little speck and blemish find, To our own stronger errors blind. A Turkey, tir'd of common food, Forsook the barn, and sought the wood ; Behind her ran an infant train, Collecting here and there a grain. * Draw near, my Birds...
Página 15 - To the last hour of act; and then, 'tis thought, Thou'lt show thy mercy, and remorse, more strange Than is thy strange apparent cruelty: And where thou now exact'st the penalty (Which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh), Thou wilt not only lose the forfeiture, But, touched with human gentleness and love, Forgive a moiety of the principal...
Página 347 - Majesty, they would mentally include the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family.
Página 277 - Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignities of Baron and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Hon.
Página 25 - Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed ? Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time : after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
Página 29 - And thus, with grateful turn, performed the close ; Though men to men their best assistance lend, Yet men alone will but in vain befriend ; Through God we work exploits of high renown, 'Tis God that treads our great opposers down.
Página 277 - The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the great seal, granting the dignities of Baron...
Página 19 - Each hour a different face he wears, Now in a fury, now in tears, Now laughing, now in sorrow ; Now he'll command, and now obey, Bellows for liberty to-day, And roars for power to-morrow.
Página 83 - RN, at the British Association, read a paper containing some new views respecting the origin of the aurora. The author says : — "I believe the aurora borealis to be no more nor less than moisture in some shape (whether dew or vapor, liquid or frozen,) illuminated by the heavenly bodies, either directly or reflecting their rays from the frozen masses around the pole, or even from the immediately proximate snow-clad earth.

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